On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 01:49 +0100, Dan Brickley wrote: [...] > For very concrete example, imagine this as RDFa in a <head> section: > > <link rel="foaf:primaryTopic" href="#thething-itself" /> > > And then later in the page contents: > > <div about="#thething-itself"> > <p property="xyz:abc"> > > ...on the assumption that the xyz:abc property was supposed to be about > the realworld main topic of the page (maybe a person, a movie, a museum > artifact, etc). > > On my understanding there are some interactions between this style of > RDFa and the existing conventions for text/html and > application/xhtml+xml. Do we lose the RDF/XML idiom of using #blah to > refer to the external world, then? I don't think so. In fact, the about attribute _reduces_ the conflict with the tradition in the HTML world of #blah referencing a document section. The application/xhtml+xml MIME type spec should be updated to specify fragments built using about= , but that seems straightforward. > Is this a big loss? > > Issue #29: > > http://www.w3.org/2006/07/SWD/track/issues/29 -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/Received on Tuesday, 19 June 2007 11:37:26 GMT
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